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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Dr. Miles St. Clair spends his days cooped up in a laboratory studying broken ancient DNA sequences to repair them. Miles was widowed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and since then he's devoted his life to Ancient DNA Recovery Technologies, Inc., the genetics company he founded. To the outside world, Miles' work may appear obscure, but it catches the attention of New Orbital Investigative Systems (NOIS ), a group of wealthy scientists, businessmen,and entrepreneurs. They fund a generous grant to support his work on the Holy Shroud of Turin, rumored to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, from which Miles uses extracted DNA to compare for a possible match to other alleged religious relics.
When NOIS invites Miles to France to consult on the DNA sampling of the remains of a Visigoth king, he realizes there is more to his benefactors than meets the eye. In Paris, they assign him to a security detail...moments before informing him that the Twin Towers in New York were targeted because they housed his laboratories. By destroying him and his research in one fell swoop, the attackers hoped to prevent the very thing for which he had been brought to Europe, the cloning of a French king believed to be a direct descendant of Jesus, the Christ.
Reeling from these stunning revelations and a subsequent attempts on his life, Miles is torn between ethical and religious limitations and his hunger for scientific advancement. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will be intrigued by this scientific look at the legend of the Knights Templar, and all readers will be fascinated with Miles' dual identities of a man of faith and a man of science.
AWARD
Finalist, National Best Books 2009 in Fiction & Literature:Fantasy/SciFi.
When NOIS invites Miles to France to consult on the DNA sampling of the remains of a Visigoth king, he realizes there is more to his benefactors than meets the eye. In Paris, they assign him to a security detail...moments before informing him that the Twin Towers in New York were targeted because they housed his laboratories. By destroying him and his research in one fell swoop, the attackers hoped to prevent the very thing for which he had been brought to Europe, the cloning of a French king believed to be a direct descendant of Jesus, the Christ.
Reeling from these stunning revelations and a subsequent attempts on his life, Miles is torn between ethical and religious limitations and his hunger for scientific advancement. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will be intrigued by this scientific look at the legend of the Knights Templar, and all readers will be fascinated with Miles' dual identities of a man of faith and a man of science.
AWARD
Finalist, National Best Books 2009 in Fiction & Literature:Fantasy/SciFi.
